G-You's Guide on the Side - Halloween Edition

G-You's Guide on the Side A guide to Halloween in Quarantine!

Produced by the Libraries Committee Artwork by Jaimie Chow and Olivia Swarthout

Welcome to G-Boo! Contents: Spotify Meet The Team Halloween Shops DIY Toilet Roll Bats Haunted Hideouts Halloween Cocktails Pumpkin Quiz Spooky Stories Costume City Halloween Movies Hair-Raising Horoscopes Gory Games Hello Reader! We know Halloween is going to be VERRRY different this year, with no guising (trick or treating), Halloween Hive or big Murano block parties, so, we decided to put together a fun little guide for you, to help you make the most of Halloween in Quarantine this year! From a Pumpkin Quiz to Haunted Locations across the world, this guide has everything you need to get into the spooky mood! Here at G-You we are aware that this year has been SUPER tough, therefore this guide also serves as a reminder that we are all here for you and our details are on the back page should you wish to get in touch!

This guide was made by GUU Libraries Committee to accompany our online Halloween Events - get a view of the committee dressed in their fav costumes on page 5! We meet every Wednesday and write articles for the regularly published G-You magazine. You don't need any prior experience to write for us, and can take pitches online from our contributors group on Facebook or in person at our meetings! With the warmest of welcomes from the team, we can't wait to meet you all when the time is right!

Also, why not scan the code below to have a listen to our "Halloween in Quarantine" Spotify Playlist while you read!

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THE Imogen James:

Ewan Galbraith:

Fuad Kehinde:

Holly Ellis:

Showcase Editor

Sports Editor

Science Editor

Current Threads Editor

Duncan Henderson:

Beth Leishman:

Nina Munro:

Jaimie Chow:

Politics Editor

Lifestyle Editor

Social Media/PR Coordinator

Graphics/Artwork Coordinator

Olivia Swarthout:

Catherine Bouchard:

Francisca Matias:

Production Officer

Co Editor-In-Chief

Convenor/Editor In Chief

HALLOWEEN SHOPS Nina's feeding your halloween fix!

Flying Tiger: Situated on Sauchiehall Street and Buchanan Galleries, Flying Tiger is the BEST place to go for decorations, no matter the occasion! This year the

£3 halloween garlands, £7 skeleton fairy lights, £2 bat balloons, and many collection boasts

more affordable treats! Flying Tiger is also a great place to go to buy last minute costume pieces!

Poundland: One in Partick, and one on Sauchiehall St, Poundland is a must for spooky decor! You are unlikely to find anything in this wonderful shop for more than

£5, which makes it super budget

friendly!

H&M:

Arty Party: A Glasgow Halloween hot spot, this party place is perfect for everything you will need to complete your costume! Selling all sorts from spooky contact lenses to gory wounds, you’re sure to scare your friends after a visit! Find them at 73 St George’s Road, right by the M8 at the end of Woodlands Road!

Roots and Fruits: This wouldn’t be much of a Halloween article if I didn’t point you towards the best place to buy your pumpkin! Roots and Fruits is a West End staple grocer and florists, with one next to Paesano on GWR, and one right by Kelvingrove Park on Argyle Street! Roots and Fruits is the best place to buy your fruit and vegetables and thus, is the best place to get your

Glasgow is home to one of the biggest H&Ms I’ve ever seen, and one I regularly frequent for last minute costumes! While I am not a supporter of fast fashion brands, going into H&M is arguably a much better choice than ordering from Amazon, and therefore as a last resort I would recommend it! They always have lots of cute halloween accessories, and are guaranteed to have something spooky in their home section!

Tam Shepherds Trick Shop: A local favourite, Tam Shepherds Trick Shop is a hidden gem with everything you would EVER need to set up Halloween indoors! You’ll find Tams at 33 Queen Street, very near the Argyle Street Primark!

pumpkin! Remember to save the filling after carving and make some nice pumpkin treats to save food wastage!

Nina's Guide to DIY Halloween decorations to frighten up your flat!

It wouldn’t be a Halloween in Quarantine if I didn’t help you all make use of those toilet rolls you have hanging around from all your panic buying. Soooo, here’s a handy guide on how to make

What you will need:

toilet paper roll bats!

Step 1: Black paint The cardboard inside bit of the toilet roll (anyone know the proper name for this?)

Googley eyes Black Card Scissors Pencil Paintbrush Glue

Step 3:

Method: 1. Paint your cardboard tube with black paint, then set aside to dry, this will be the bat’s body.

2. While your “body” is drying, cut out two wing shapes from your black paper, in any sort of design you like!

3. When the body is dry, some folding is required! First, flatten the body completely. Then, stand the body back up, and fold down the top on one side, making sure to crease the fold.

4. Fold the other side down and do the same again.

5. Repeat these two folds at the other end of the tube. Using glue, add the wings to the back of your body, and the googly eyes to the front.

6. Then - you have a fun toilet roll bat! You could get some string and tie multiple bats together to make a garland, or just dot them around to add a spooky vibe!

Finished Result!:

Catherine takes us to the scariest places in the world!

Bhangarh Fort, India:

Hill of Crosses, Lithuania:

The ruins of Bhangarh Fort lie composed of ruined

Crosses have been placed here since the 14th

walls, bazars, royal palaces and temples, and have

Century, initially as a sign of the Lithuanian

the reputation of being the most haunted fort in India

independence movement. Following a

- so much so entry is banned at night! Known as the

peasant revolt in 1831, the hill became a site of

House of Ghosts, rumour has it the fort and its

remembrance and, later, defiance of the

inhabitants were cursed by a wizard named Singhia

Soviet occupation (being bulldozed three

when he was spurned by a princess called Ratnavati

times). Composed of more than 100,000

after the enchanted oil he gave her to make her love

crosses the hill rings with the clink of crucifixes

him turned into a boulder and crushed him.

and rosaries which denote a symphony of

The Catacombs, France:

chiming wails.

La Noria, Chile: Composed of artfully arranged skulls and bones, the catacombs in Paris remain one of the scariest places still open to the public. Surrounded by the claustrophobia of being buried underground, these tunnels are scary enough even without being the home to an estimated six million bodies. Parts of the labyrinth remain unexplored, and movies like As Above, So Below remind us just how terrifying the implications of this are.

Lawang Sewu, Indonesia: This former railway building has a dark past as a World War II prison and a reputation as the most haunted place in Indonesia. Numerous ghosts are rumoured to haunt the building, with some of the scariest including headless spirits, the “Dutch Woman� and a kuntilanak (a female vampiric ghost from Malay and Indonesian mythology).

Located in the heart of the Atacama Desert (the driest place on earth), the ruins of La Noria show the crumbled history of an old, abandoned mining town. Following a spree of looting, many coffins lie exposed, showing the remains of those buried within. After sundown, the restless spirits of the disturbed graves are told to rise and walk the streets of La Noria once more.

Recipes to mix up the most deadly of potions - created by Holly!

Poison Appletini

Spooch (Spooky Hooch)

WAP (Wet Ass Pumpkin)

For all you classy witches we

Back off you spooky witches,

You're going to want to gobble

have a special halloween

it's time to spook up your

this, swallow this, drip drown

themed martini.

hooch and here 's how you do

the side of this.

it.

Ingredients:

Ingredients:

Ingredients:

60 ml Vodka

1 Hooch.

25 ml vanilla vodka

1 tbsp of dry vermouth

50 ml Gin.

15 ml cream liqueur

(let's be honest none of us

(add crushed ice and jelly

25ml Pumpkin Puree

snakes for extra spook)

1 Cinnamon Stick

have this in our cupboards) 60ml Apple Sourz 1 Lemon Peel

Peachy Pint of Death In honour of the GUU's most mysterious and elusive (non-existent) PoF flavour; we bring you the PoD. It's scary because the alcohol content is in your hands. PoD with caution.

Ingredients: 1 Peach and Raspberry VK ?ml Vodka Lemonade

A personality quiz made by Nina, all about pumpkins!

Do you prefer to dress scary or funny on halloween?

Scary

Funny

IT or The Purge?

Nightmare Before Christmas, or The Corpse Bride?

The Corpse Bride

Nightmare Before Christmas

The Purge

IT

Sweets or Chocolate?

Dressing yourself up or dressing your pets?

Dress your pet

D yo res ur s se lf

Guising or Halloween Hive?

ts ee Chocolate Sw

Halloween Hive

Guising

Gruesome and Gory or Eerie and Spooky?

Angel or Devil?

Gruesome and Gory

Eerie and Spooky

Pumpkin or Princess?

Angel

Pumpkin

Vampire or Witch?

Devil

Princess Vampire

The Pet Pumpkin: you are caring, cute and love all things animals! This year you should turn your pumpkin into your favourite pet!

The Fairytale Pumpkin: you love happy endings, disney and fairytale halloween costumes!

This year, turn your pumpkin into your favourite fairytale scene!

The Naughty Pumpkin: you love to play tricks and have a very clever mind when it comes to pranks!

This year, decorate your pumpkin as the devil himself!

Witch

The Scary Pumpkin: You love Halloween purely because it gives you the chance to scare all your friends! You love anything spooky, so this year why not make your pumpkin as scary as can be!

Imogen's short horror stories!

‘I could hear the toilet flush

Did you know?

Did you know we have ghosts on

across the hall. The only thing is, I live alone.’

campus! Various sightings of the Grey Lady have been reported around campus for

‘Halloween masks for sale:

years, leading to suspicion

genuine human leather.’

that Glasgow Uni is indeed haunted. Various apparitions,

‘My boyfriend nestled in closer to me in bed. I snapped awake as I remembered he died last year.’

like the old lady in grey, a young girl, and a man who supposedly fell to his death in the chapel wander the grounds at night, seeking revenge and

‘The house had been abandoned for years. I went into the bedroom, the sheets were warm.’

connection. Maybe if you take a late night walk around the hotspots – Cloisters, Lion & Unicorn

‘I went to HIVE on a Thursday, and it was dead.’

Staircase, Chapel – you’ll run into one yourself… Company advised…

Fuad gives us the lowdown on the costumes that sum up this year

Have you still not decided on a Halloween costume this year? Is inspiration just not coming?

Well, you're in luck because I've compiled what I think are the best costumes that embody 2020 energy.

All these ideas were sourced from a totally official Instagram survey.

For the general 2020 vibe, the most common answers I got were quite chaotic.

Ignoring the countless answers that suggested dressing up as a virus, I think the standout in this category has to be

a plague doctor.

If you wanted to add a little creative spin onto it, I would suggest throwing an apron on also. Suitable as we all too many friends that started baking bread this year. An honourable mention in this category would be a trash bag on fire.

For this next category, I'm sure you're excited for this one, we have the sexy costume ideas.

My favourite suggestion for this one would be

a surgical mask mankini.

I will choose not to picture this costume too much, but it is definitely a good idea.

The honourable mention for this category is definitely sexy toilet paper.

I... No further comment needed for this one.

And now, the last category. The theme closest to my

meme costumes. I simply cannot choose the best one, so I'll give you my top three. There's the "SIMP", which consists of vans, loose jeans heart, the

and a vintage jumper. Or if you're more of a gamer, then I recommend dressing up as either

a spooky or sexy crewmate from Among Us, the game that has

captured our hearts. And finally, if you really want to embody that lockdown energy, then I recommend to you

a cardboard cutout of yourself in a zoom

meeting.

So, go on and show off your inventiveness to your friends, readers. Take my suggestions absolutely seriously and I promise that you'll be the best dressed this year.

HALLOWEEN MOVIES: RANKED Olivia ranks her favourite Halloween Movies from best to worst!

In honour of Halloween, the scariest night of the year, I’ve compiled a list of the most disturbing, creepy, and suspenseful horror movies I’ve watched in recent years. Even as a horror fan, some of these were enough to leave me terrified, so only watch these films if you’re ready to give yourself a serious fright!

1. March of the Penguins (2005)

3. Bean (1997)

The film opens on a quiet Antarctic snowscape filled

This film, based on the highly successful television series

with happy families of penguins, but unbeknownst to

Mr. Bean, follows a man with extreme and inexplicable

the viewer, a world of untold pain is about to unfold on

psychotic tendencies and the havoc he wreaks on the lives

these poor birds. From howling snowstorms to vicious

of those around him. Rowan Atkinson delivers a stunning -

predators who seemingly crave penguin flesh, terror

if unsettling - performance as the titular character, a man

after terror is unleashed upon the innocent creatures,

who treats the law, common decency, and the wellbeing

and not even their children are spared from the

of those around him with complete impunity. Though his

onslaught. Throughout the film, a narrator describes

schemes do not go unnoticed by the police, he manages

the scenes with a detached, emotionless voice,

to evade capture time and time again, making this film a

emphasizing the powerlessness of the penguins to

thrilling and suspenseful look at the darkest and most

avoid their violent fate.

twisted depths of the human psyche.

2. Mean Girls (2004) 4. Peppa Pig (2004) You may know star actress Lindsay Lohan from her smash hits Freaky Friday and The Parent Trap, but did

Although not technically a film, this cult favourite is so

you know she also played a leading role in this 2004

disturbing that I had to include it in my list. The series

thriller about a school with a hidden dark side? Lohan

follows a normal British family who are transformed, by

stars as the innocent Cady Heron, a teenage girl who

some unknown power, into grotesque human-pig hybrids

arrives at a new high school wanting nothing more

who walk and speak like people yet have the faces and

than to make friends and fit in. Gradually, we learn

bodies of swine. The simple dialogue and animated format

that the school’s shallow facade of normalcy is just

create an atmosphere of whimsy that contrasts with the

that, and it is in fact governed by a small, cult-like

gruesome subject matter, as we watch this family go

group of girls known as “The Plastics” who rule over

about their lives barely aware that they’ve been

their fellow students with an iron fist. As they try to

irreversibly transformed into disgusting beasts. Perhaps

initiate Cady into their ranks, she’s subjected to all

intended as a criticism of consumer culture or a

manner of cruel trials, and her sense of reality slowly

commentary on lingering effects of British colonial rule

begins to warp as the Plastics gain more and more

abroad, it’s hard to know what exactly the deeper

control over her life, her appearance, and even her

message is behind this series, but one thing at least is

mind.

certain - it will terrify you.

Kika provides the goods with the song your starsign should be bopping to this Halloween!

Libra (September 23 - October 23): Aries (March 21 - April 19): It has just been your bday and we hope you had a fab one!

The second of the full moons coming in during Scorpio means

Scorpio begins on the 22nd, and you are most comfortable

you are in your fairly intimate erotic zone on Halloween, so sexy

with simple plans this Halloween as Uranus brings a bit of a

costumes it is! Listen to Thriller by MJ to get in the mood!

shake up! Chuck on the Season of the Witch by Donovan and wait to see what happens!

Taurus (April 20 - May 20): Scorpio (October 24 - November 21): You are feeling WILD this Halloween, Mercury in retrogade means your relationships are targeted this Halloween, along

Halloween brings one thing for you, the beginning of your bday

with Uranus uniting in your sign on the 31st, leaving you with

season! Full moon Halloween could bring developments in

mixed feelings and a bittersweet Halloween... Try to get into the

relationship, so keep an eye out and listen to Black Magic

vibe with Werewolf Bar Mitzvah - Jeff Richmond ft. Tracy

Woman by Fleetwood Mac - after all, you guys are the stars of

Morgan!

Black Magic!

Gemini (May 21 - June 20):

Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21):

Full moon on Halloween means your social life is being played

Scorpio beginning on the 22nd means you need to save your

with a bit, and you will need to take things one at a time! Listen

energy before your bday, and full moon on the 31st means your

to Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr to channel your inner fighter,

health and wellbeing is where its at, take care of yourself and

getting those ghosts bit by bit!

boogie to Somebody's Watching Me by Rockwell!

Cancer (June 21 - July 22):

Capricorn (December 22 - January 19)

I highly advise a social distant Halloween and therefore the

A spicy full moon at the end of October means you are en

reason why the Adams Family theme song is yours - stay in and

route for an uplifting ride after a tough month for your sign!

have a Halloween-themed movie night! Halloween will be

Listen to Highway to Hell by AC/DC to get your positive mind

unpredictable, alike all the members of the Adams fam, so avoid

on!

large gatherings like a faithful Wednesday Adams. Don't sweat, Scorpio season will come on full of lust on the 22nd.

Aquarius (January 20 - February 18)

Leo (July 23 - August 22):

Halloween might just bring a domestic overspill for you guys this year, so perhaps is an opportunity to fix some tensions,

Full moon on the 31st falls in line with Taurus and Uranus, so

think more treat than trick! Your go to tune is Hungry Like the

Halloween is going to be FULL of unexpected surprises! Get into

Wold by Duran Duran!

the groove with the Monster Mash!

Pisces (February 19 - March 20): Virgo (August 23 - September 22): You've had a rollercoaster this October, but full moon in Taurus Your social life is SHINING from the 22nd October - so the

means your Halloween is very people-oriented, and you'll be

Halloween adventures are a go here, be COVID-friendly and

feeling very vivid and daring with Uranus joining in too.

take some risks, listen to Stevie Wonder's Superstition, and

Channel your creativity, confidence and express yourself this

forget about your suspicions!

Halloween! Dance to Psycho Killer by the Talking Heads!

GORY GORY GAMES GAMES Ewan tells all on the best games to play this Halloween!

Hand Sanitiser Fear Pong Grab your nearest and dearest, a pack of red solo cups, and your largest bottle of hand sanitiser for a reimagining of the classic game for the era of socialdistancing. Fill each cup with hand sanitiser and pick your teams to ensure a competitive and clean cup experience free of the risk of any germs on the ball.

For the more adventurous, take the time to write dares, personal questions, or a challenge of your choosing on the bottom of each cup. Rather than drinking the hand sanitiser - successfully throwing the ping pong ball in the cup forces a member of the opposite to follow the instructions.

Toilet Paper Mummy Another flashback to the parties from the past. Nominate two models and two dressers from among your bubble to compete. The challenge: to create the best mummy costume using toilet paper. Each team has two minutes to create their outfit, with the best wrapped and most stylish mummy taking home the grand prize. Or y’all could remember that toilet paper was the first to go last lockdown and wasting it during Halloween might not be the best idea.

Whatever way, make sure to use it wisely.


 Bobbing For Apples Basin of water plus the crunchiest apples that you can find in the supermarket.

Rules are simple = apples must be extracted from the basin using only the participants mouth. Hand usage results in a hefty forfeit for the bobber. For best result be sure to wear full PPE and masks must be kept on throughout the challenge. For a messier variation swap out the water for a bowl of flour and the apples for Jelly Babies. An ideal game for Halloween 2020.

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